The #10 song of 2023, according to Billboard, is another I managed to miss entirely: ‘I’m Good (Blue)’ by David Guetta and Beve Rexha.
This song had a long journey to the 2023 top ten. The duo initially worked on the track in 2017, with no intention to release it. However, when a snippet of the song (which heavily samples Eiffel 65’s 1998 ‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’) went viral on TikTok, they decided to give it an official release.
In a new annual tradition, I’ll start January by recapping Billboard’s Hot 100 songs of the previous year. If I’ve been good about keeping an ear open to “What the Kids are Listening To,” I should get pretty far down the list after weeding out the songs I’ve already featured.
Last year, I made it all the way to #27 before reaching a song new to the blog. This year, I didn’t do nearly as well. My first entry was the #9 song of 2023.
Yesterday I looked back on my past year of blogging, so today is about the year to come. Here are some of my plans for 2024:
Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable New Year’s Eve!
Last year around this time, I wrote a post detailing all the plans I had for the blog in 2023. Today, I’ll revisit that outline to see how I did.
My final song of 2023 is the first song to reach #1 in 1964. Today we throw back to the week of December 27, 1963, when Bobby Vinton’s ‘There! I’ve Said it Again’ sat at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, just behind ‘Dominique‘ by The Singing Nun, a week before it hit the top spot.
This was Vinton’s third #1 on the chart, following ‘Roses Are Red (My Love)‘ in July of 1962 and ‘Blue Velvet‘ in October of 1963. He would top the chart one more time, with 1964’s ‘Mr. Lonely.’
Bobby Vinton was the Drake of the early 60s.
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